Tribe Files Lawsuit To Stop Yucca Mountain Nuke Dump

The Nation - In Brief

March 5, 2005

LAS VEGAS -- An American Indian tribe filed a federal lawsuit Friday aimed at stopping the government from building a nuclear-waste dump on ancestral land in Nevada. Members of the Western Shoshone National Council cited a 19th-century treaty with the federal government that they said gives the tribe the right to stop the nuclear repository from being built at Yucca Mountain. "Mother Earth is sacred to the Shoshone and is not to be hurt by us," Western Shoshone Chief Raymond Yowell said.